Stanford Spezi

Stanford University Biodesign is coming to Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset and Chalmers tekniska h?gskola! Join us Monday 24th of March 12-13 (CET) for a special session with Oliver Aalami! Oliver Aalami is the director of Stanford Biodesign Digital Health and a clinical professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. He will be speaking about Biodesign and how digital health can transform healthcare! Meet us in-person at DigITpulsen (under the main entrance of Sahlgrenska) or online. Sign up with in comments or by sending a message to Pontus Pfannenstill. Stanford's Biodesign program is arguably the world's foremost innovation program in health, running for 20+ years. The program’s focus on need-based innovation and interdisciplinary work is groundbreaking, and has a huge impact on innovation in healthcare globally. In Sweden it inspired Clinical Innovation Fellowship, run for 10+ years by Karolinska Institutet, Kungliga Tekniska h?gskolan and Region Stockholm, was an early adopter of the methodology. The first iteration of the Innovation and technology program at Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuse, lead by Caroline Damgaard and Peter Kelly, MD, was also heavily influenced by the Biodesign thinking. March 24th the next chapter in the Biodesign story in Sweden is happening: Chalmers tekniska h?gskola is opening up its Biodesign inspired course in Implementing Digital Health together with Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset. Oliver Aalami and his team will be supporting the journey and will be speaking at the inaugural lecture. Welcome Oliver Aalami! Ping Torbj?rn Lundh, Stefan Candefjord, Sara Hansson, Johan Olsson Gerle.

?? Exciting Moments from the DWIH Innovation Summit 2024! ???? This week, we had the opportunity to engage in critical conversations at the DWIH Innovation Summit in San Francisco, where leaders in science, technology, and policy gathered to explore the future of data exchange and AI-driven innovation. A highlight of the event was our Assistant Director, Paul Schmiedmayer, who moderated an insightful panel on data exchange—a crucial topic shaping the way research institutions, industries, and governments collaborate in an increasingly digital world. From privacy challenges to interoperability solutions, the discussion tackled the pressing issues that will define the next generation of global data-sharing frameworks. Thank you to Matthias Haury, Juliane Winkelmann, Bhupinder Bhullar, Shatakshi Sharma, Claus-C. Glüer, and Ying Lu for the great panel discussion! A huge thank you to the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) San Francisco for bringing together such an incredible lineup of experts! Looking forward to continuing these conversations and driving meaningful progress in data-driven innovation. Photography Credit: Barak Shrama ? #DWIHInnovationSummit #DataExchange #AI #Innovation #Collaboration #TechPolicy

Every new journey begins with uncertainty. When Torbj?rn Lundh, Stefan Candefjord and I were planning the brand new course on "Implementing Digital Health" (inspired by Stanford University Biodesign Digital Health) I would lie, if I wasn't a little nervous that enough students wouldn't apply on such a short notice. So very happy that we have the reverse challenge: more students have applied for the course, that we will be able to admit! We'll do our best to make this course incredible for the participants. For those student that aren't able to join us this spring, there's a new chance in the fall again. Ping Oliver Aalami, Paul Schmiedmayer, Aydin Zahedivash, Vishnu Ravi, MD. Photo by?Shamblen Studios?on?Unsplash

Proud of our work on BALANCE, a novel mobile health intervention for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa that provides real-time DBT-based distress tolerance skills to support them during mealtimes. This innovative app was developed by students in our CS342 Building for Digital Health course using our Stanford Spezi framework. The study results are quite encouraging: 100% of participants found the app user-friendly, 88% would recommend it to peers, and 92% reported it helpful during high-stress situations. Congratulations to Drs. James Lock, Nandini Datta, Brittany Matheson, Christina Miranda and the Stanford Eating Disorders Research Program team on this brilliant concept and study! Thanks to my fellow instructors Paul Schmiedmayer, Oliver Aalami, and Ashley Griffin, who helped guide our talented students at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign through building the app, and Sebastian Ricaldoni who brought it to production readiness! ??

Check out our latest preprint examining how LLMs perform at clinical reasoning when run directly on personal smartphones and tablets. Our benchmarks reveal that even standard consumer devices can run LLMs for medical AI applications effectively, demonstrating the potential for privacy-preserving medical AI that keeps sensitive health data on personal devices ?? https://lnkd.in/eVBhhpE5 Key findings: - Medical-tuned models Med42 and Aloe achieved the highest accuracy - Phi-3 Mini offered the best balance of size, speed and accuracy - Models generated 11-30 tokens per second—faster than average human reading speed! - Memory, not processing power, is the main constraint - Even older devices (e.g., an iPhone 12 Pro from 2020) can run these models effectively Excellent work led by Leon Nissen with Philipp Zagar, Vishnu Ravi, MD, Aydin Zahedivash, Lara Marie Reimer, Stephan Jonas, Oliver Aalami, and Paul Schmiedmayer. #LLMs #AI #DigitalHealth Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

Team dinner ?? Feeling incredibly fortunate to work alongside these brilliant minds @StanfordBDHG . It's the people who transform vision into impact - and this team proves it every day. Together, we're shaping the future of digital health innovation at @Stanford ??… https://t.co/AsfPsaolH0 https://t.co/GgLZBfQevo

This is huge! This spring Chalmers tekniska h?gskola is starting the first education inspired by the outstanding Stanford Biodesign Digital Health (led by Oliver Aalami). The courses are open for both students of Chalmers tekniska h?gskola and G?teborgs universitet (se links below), as well as medical staff - that want to drive digital innovation in health. If you're a doctor, nurse or other medical staff and interested in being part of this - send me a DM. The courses will be late afternoon / early evening, so possible to combine with clinical work. Thanks Oliver Aalami, Torbj?rn Lundh and Stefan Candefjord for making this happen! Looking forward to collaborating with you. Ping D. J. Mogefors and Sjoerd Haasl. https://lnkd.in/dNuqh-jD